Tapping CPAN testers

[David Golden]

On 9/17/07, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:
> I'm quite encouraged by the results although it'd be nice to see
> evidence of a few more people using it. It'll be interesting to have
> a few days worth of history and learn if anyone else is using 2.99.

You should probably ask some of the CPAN Testers leaderboard (Chris
Williams, David Cantrell) to try it out, though this has some risks,
such as when Andreas installed 2.99_01 which caused a lot of spurious
fails before we got T::H and CPAN::Reporter patched.

Most smokers are YACSmoke-based (i.e. CPANPLUS) which, last I saw,
doesn't depend so heavily on Test::Harness output as CPAN::Reporter
did (usually it relies on exit codes).  I think it still screen
scrapes for the NOTESTS case -- someone should ping Kane about that.

Monthly top testers: http://perl.grango.org/mtesters.html

Regards,
David